Mountbatten was removed from the Auckland Regional Botanic Gardens (ARBG) Display Trial because its trial period expired.

Heirloom Old Garden Roses says Lord Mountbatten™ has large, fragrant fully double, cupped blooms of primrose yellow, at times delicately edged with pink... this rose won the British Rose of the Year in 1982. A very nice cut flower chosen by Princess Diana for inclusion in her wedding bouquet.

Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas, Earl Mountbatten of Burma, British admiral and statesman. Born at Frogmore House, Windsor, 25 June 1900. Killed in Donegal Bay, off Mullaghmore, County Sligo, Ireland, by a bomb planted aboard his yacht by IRA terrorists 27 August 1979.